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Auction: 23004 - Ancient and British Coins - Featuring the 'White Rose' Collection
Lot: 479

(x) Edward IV, First Reign (1461-1470), Light Coinage, Half-Ryal, 1464-1470, York, EDWARD DI GRA REX ANGL FRANC, King standing facing in ship holding sword and shield, flag with letter E at stern, rose on ships hull, E below, trefoil stops, trefoil after E in EDWARD, rev. (i.m) DOMINE • NE • IN • FVRORE : TVO : ARGVASME [sic], rose over a radiate sun over royal cross, crowned leopards in angles, small trefoils in spandrels, trefoil stops, double after FVRORE and TVO, 3.90g [60.1grns], 4h, i.m. sun (Schneider I, 425; North 1558; Spink 1963), typical striking softness in parts, otherwise pleasingly honest with lustrous mint flaring in recesses, good very fine to extremely fine in parts, rare

Provenance

Magnus, Spink 207, 28-29 March 2012, lot 857

Spink 67, 16 November 1988, lot 22*H P Hall, Part III, Glendining, 30-31 July 1950, scheduled but cancelled on account of the collection being purchased en bloc by Spink

J D Gibbs Collection, purchased en bloc by Spink, by 1891


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Sold for
£3,800

Starting price
£3000